Me: “Yeah, staking yourself through the heart is preferable to living in a society that has made that necessary, isn’t it? I really don’t want to be in a gene pool that has had people needing pictograms to manage their shopping splashing around in it.”

S: “I don’t really need to take me out of it, do I? I could just take them out of it. Have you got a flame thrower?”

Me: “You wouldn’t need to go to that much effort. You could manage it with a deep hole and a sandwich.”